When Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore was accused of sexually molesting children as young as 14, his fellow hardcore evangelicals shrugged at the scandal — it was "common knowledge"… Read the rest of the article: Roy Moore's scandal is just the tip of American evangelical Christianity's child bride problem
That's according to this month's shareholder filings; the company estimates the total bill at $166 million more, plus class action damages.
Equifax's nation-destroying data-breach was subsequently revealed to be just the latest in a series of unbelievably careless IT blunders, and it eventually cost the company CEO his job; now his… Read the rest of the article: Equifax's CEO isn't sure whether they've finally started encrypting their servers yet
The Paradise Papers continue to expose the economically useless activity that late-stage capitalism rewards with titanic sums of money: today, it's the story of Julien Lavallée, a botmaster ticket-scalper who… Read the rest of the article: Paradise Papers reveal cozy relationship between Stubhub and Canadian botmaster/scalper kingpin
The New York Times has collaborated with Berkeley economics prof Gabriel Zucman to produce an interactive explainer that walks through the baroque tax-evasion strategies deployed by multinationals like Google and… Read the rest of the article: Excellent, plain-language explainer on corporate and 1 percenter tax evasion, with a simple solution
Lovesense — the company that made the Bluetooth-enabled vibrating buttplugs that could be detected and hacked remotely and settled a class-lawsuit over collecting vibrator users' personal information for $3.75M —… Read the rest of the article: Lovesense sex toys make accidental audio recordings of your sex sessions, which the company describes as a "minor bug"
Transparency International found 766 dodgy companies registered to just 6 UK addresses, formed by Trust and Companies Service Providers (colloquially called "company factories") that took advantage of the drastic understaffing… Read the rest of the article: How the UK's "Company Factories" helped criminals from 13 countries launder £80B in stolen and looted money
Ray Moore is the ultra-conservative, racist, corrupt, homophobic, theocratic evangelical Christian Alabama Republican Senate nominee who was outed for repeatedly sexually assaulting girls as young as 14.
Five years ago, Benjamin Delpy was working for an unspecified French government agency and teaching himself to program in C, and had discovered a vital flaw in the way that… Read the rest of the article: Origin story of the Mimikatz password cracker is a parable about security, disclosure, cyberwar, and crime
Propublica's Julia Angwin (previoulsy) is one of the most fearless, effective investigative journalists reporting on technology; last August, she was subjected to brutal, crude, devastating cyberattacks after the publication of… Read the rest of the article: What it's like to be a reporter under cyberattack
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has made a name for himself as a crypto warrior who promotes a murky idea called "responsible encryption," through which software would somehow be designed… Read the rest of the article: The DoJ's top crypto warrior wants "strong" encryption that he can break at will
In March, Wikileaks published the Vault 7 leaks, a cache of CIA cyberweapons created under the doctrine of "NOBUS" ("No One But Us"), in which security agencies suppress the publication… Read the rest of the article: Vault 8: Wikileaks publishes sourcecode from last spring's CIA Vault 7 cyberweapons leak
Al Franken's speech on big tech and its surveillance, influence, opacity and high-handedness sometimes lacked coherence (you can't call for "Net Neutrality principles" for Amazon, Google, and Facebook and ask… Read the rest of the article: At anti-monopoly event, Al Franken blasts big tech
The telcoms industry has aggressively lobbied state legislatures to pass laws banning cities from setting up their own internet infrastructure, even in places where there is no broadband, exacerbating the… Read the rest of the article: Despite Comcast's "misinformation campaign," Colorodans vote en masse to reject ban on municipal internet
Kelli Sullivan called the Evangeline Parish, Louisiana Sheriff's Department for help with a difficult neighbor who'd harassed her family; when the Sheriff's Deputy arrived, he shot their rat terrier in… Read the rest of the article: Family calls cops for help with harassment, cop shoots their dog and complains about the cost of the bullet
Muji — the Japanese minimalist design house that's something of a local equivalent to Ikea, but with clothes, stationery, toiletries and groceries — has finally shipped its long-awaited Mujirushi micro-home,… Read the rest of the article: Muji is now selling $27,000, 98sqft micro-home "huts"
Last week, Senator Rand Paul was severely injured after an alleged assault by his neighbor, anesthesiologist/inventor Rene Boucher, who worked with Paul at a local hospital.
This week's release of 243 pages' worth of Trump advisor Carter Page's testimony to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence may tempt you to devote a couple of hours… Read the rest of the article: Carter Page's rambling, incoherent House Intelligence Committee Testimony, condensed
Shaun Bridges is the disgraced ex-Secret Service Agent who pleaded guilty to stealing bitcoin from online drug dealers while he was investigating the Silk Road; he's serving a 71-month sentence… Read the rest of the article: The crooked Secret Service agent who stole Silk Road bitcoins did it again after pleading guilty
Gizmodo's Kashmir Hill continues her excellent investigative work on Facebook's mysterious "People You May Know" system, which has caused consternation among users by making seemingly impossible (and often disturbing) connections,… Read the rest of the article: Facebook's "shadow profiles": the involuntary dossiers of information you never provided, and can't opt out of
